They Can't All Be Zingers
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{{Infobox album
| name = They Can't All Be Zingers
| type = Greatest hits
| artist = Primus
| cover = Primus (band) - They Can't All Be Zingers.jpg
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| released = October 17, 2006
| recorded = 1989–2003
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| studio =
| genre = Funk metal, alternative rock, experimental rock, alternative metal
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| label = Interscope
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| prev_title = Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People
| prev_year = 2003
| next_title = Green Naugahyde
| next_year = 2011
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r928178|pure_url=yes}}|title=They Can't All Be Zingers - Primus|publisher=Allmusic}}
}}
They Can't All Be Zingers is a greatest hits compilation album by Primus. It was released through Interscope Records on October 17, 2006, the same day that their DVD Blame It on the Fish was released.
They Can't All Be Zingers includes 16 digitally remastered songs that span their entire career. Tracks include a previously unreleased and extended version of "Shake Hands With Beef", the Tom Waits collaboration "Coattails of a Dead Man", and "Mary the Ice Cube" from the 2003 DVD/EP Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People.
The Best Buy version of the album contains a bonus CD with four rare live tracks ("Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers," "Bob," "My Name Is Mud," & "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver") recorded at Woodstock '94, including the infamous version of "My Name Is Mud" where they were pelted with mud by the audience (in which Claypool responds by informing them of their "small and insignificant genitalia").
The album's title comes from a line from the stand-up act of comedian Neil Hamburger. The CD is packaged with an outer cellophane cover meant to represent a package of individually wrapped single slices of processed cheese. The artwork for the inner booklet and the CD looks like cheese itself. The wedge of cheese pictured on the sleeve has the shape of the head in the frying pan from Frizzle Fry emerging from it.
Track listing
{{track listing || all_lyrics = Les Claypool || all_music = Primus || extra_column=Original album || total_length = 76:20
| title1 = To Defy the Laws of Tradition || extra1 = Frizzle Fry || length1 = 6:41
| title2 = John the Fisherman || extra2 = Frizzle Fry || length2 = 3:37
| title3 = Too Many Puppies || extra3 = Frizzle Fry || length3 = 3:58
| title4 = Jerry Was a Race Car Driver || extra4 = Sailing the Seas of Cheese || length4 = 3:11
| title5 = Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers || extra5 = Sailing the Seas of Cheese || length5 = 5:17
| title6 = Tommy the Cat || extra6 = Sailing the Seas of Cheese || length6 = 4:14
| title7 = My Name Is Mud || extra7 = Pork Soda || length7 = 4:45
| title8 = Mr. Krinkle || extra8 = Pork Soda || length8 = 5:25
| title9 = DMV || extra9 = Pork Soda || length9 = 4:56
| title10 = Over the Electric Grapevine || extra10 = Tales from the Punchbowl || length10 = 6:23
| title11 = Wynona's Big Brown Beaver || extra11 = Tales from the Punchbowl || length11 = 4:22
| title12 = Southbound Pachyderm || extra12 = Tales from the Punchbowl || length12 = 6:23
| title13 = Over the Falls || extra13 = Brown Album || length13 = 2:41
| title14 = Shake Hands with Beef || note14 = Extended Version || extra14 = Brown Album || length14 = 4:23
| title15 = Coattails of a Dead Man || extra15 = Antipop || length15 = 5:17
| title16 = Mary the Ice Cube || extra16 = Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People || length16 = 4:37
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{{track listing || headline = iTunes bonus track || extra_column=Original album
|| total_length = 80:43
| title17 = Mr. Knowitall || note17 = Live || extra17 = Frizzle Fry || length17 = 4:23
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{{track listing || headline=Extra Cheese: Best Buy bonus tracks (recorded live at Woodstock 1994) || extra_column=Original album
|| total_length = 98:36
| title17 = Those Damned Blue Collar Tweekers || extra17 = Sailing the Seas of Cheese || length17 =
| title18 = Bob || extra18 = Pork Soda || length18 =
| title19 = My Name Is Mud || extra19 = Pork Soda || length19 =
| title20 = Jerry Was a Race Car Driver || extra20 = Sailing the Seas of Cheese || length20 =
}}
Personnel
- Les Claypool - bass guitar, vocals
- Larry LaLonde - guitar
- Tim "Herb" Alexander - drums on all tracks, except...
- Bryan "Brain" Mantia - drums on "Shake Hands with Beef", "Over the Falls" and "Coattails of a Dead Man"
- Tom Waits - vocals on "Tommy the Cat", vocals and Chamberlin on "Coattails of a Dead Man"
- Martina Topley-Bird - vocals on "Coattails of a Dead Man"
Packaging and Design by Zoltron
Illustration by Reuben Rude
Charts
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!align="left" valign="top"|Year !align="left" valign="top"|Chart !align="left" valign="top"|Position |
| align="left" valign="top"|2006
|align="left" valign="top"|The Billboard 200 |align="left" valign="top"|#105 |